Islam - The Summit of Religious Evolution — Page 120
120 Another interesting fact is that in accordance with traditions of the Holy Prophet, a reformer (Mujadid) was to be raised from among the Muslims at the head of every century. The mission of the Mujadid was to renew the message of Islam and through Divine guidance, put forth the proper interpretation of the allegoric messages. Islamic literature unanimously record Mujadids (reformers) for the first thirteen centuries but has not yet identified the Mujadid for the fourteenth Islamic century. Incidentally, that was the time when the Muslims were awaiting the advent of the Mahdi-Messiah. God also promised in the Quran that His message i. e. Islam will prevail in the world and that the message will be spread by His messengers: 22 "Allah has decreed, most surely I will prevail, I and My messengers, Verily, Allah is Powerful, Mighty". God has ordained that He and His prophets shall always prevail against others. This is the evidence of His Power over all things. Those who bring messages from God must succeed. God is the Guarantor of their success. If this were not so humans would begin to have doubts about His Power and Dominion. The Holy Quran affirms: 23 "Most surely We help Our Messengers, and those who believe, in the present life and on the day when witnesses will stand forth”. And again” 24 "But Allah grants to His Messengers power over whomsoever He pleases and Allah has power over all things". It is evident from these verses that according to the Holy Quran God grants power and success to His Messengers. He makes them dominate others, possibly in the physical as well as in the spiritual sense. The Holy Quran also stipulates God’s punishment for false claimants to be his messengers. The Quran states that they can not prosper; they must await divine punishment: 25 And, had he forged (and attributed) any sayings to Us, We would surely have seized him by the right hand, and then surely We would have severed his life-artery. The verse is very clear. If a messenger lies deliberately about God, claiming to have had messages from Him, God will seize him by the right hand and cuts asunder his life artery. God’s help and support are cut short for him. Instead, he is disgraced. Again the Quran affirms: 26 Who is more unjust than he who forges a lie against Allah or gives the lie to His Signs? Surely, the unjust shall not prosper. This verse leaves no doubt that the unjust cannot prosper according to the Law of God. How can one who lies about God, one who is spiritually the most unjust, succeed in fabricating false claims? It appears, therefore, that God works in two ways. Firstly, He helps His Messengers, and gives